"Such is our racial balance-sheet.
And, be it remembered: our civilization, unlike its predecessors, cannot shift
the burden to other shoulders, because there are no more untapped "racial
reserves." No "noble barbarians" wait to step forward as in the
past; the barbarians and savages who still remain in the world are demonstrably
of inferior caliber and can contribute little or nothing to the progress of
civilization.

If, then, our civilization is to survive, it must conserve and foster
its own race values. Happily our civilization possesses two great advantages
over past times: scientific knowledge and the scientific spirit. To us have
been revealed secrets of life our forebears never knew. And to us has been vouchsafed
a passion for the truth such as the world has never seen. Other ages have
sought truth from the lips of seers and prophets; our age seeks it from
scientific proof. Other ages have had their saints and martyrs -- dauntless
souls who clung to the faith with unshakeable constancy. Yet our age has also
had its saints and martyrs -- heroes who can not only face death for their
faith, but who can also scrap their faith when facts have proved it wrong.
There, indeed, is courage! And therein lies our hope.

This matchless love of truth, this spirit
of science which combines knowledge and faith in the synthesis of a higher
wisdom, as yet inspires only the elite of our time. Most of us are still more
or less under the spell of the past -- the spell of passion, prejudice, and
unreason. It is thus that ideas and ideals clearly disproved by science yet
claim the allegiance of multitudes of worthy men.

The dead hand of
false doctrines and fallacious hopes lies, indeed, heavy upon us. Laws,
institutions, customs, ideas, and ideals are all stamped deep with its imprint.
Our very minds and souls are imbued with delusions like environmentalism and
"natural equality" from whose emotional grip it is hard to escape.
Mighty as is the new truth, our eyes are yet blinded to its full meaning, our
hearts shrink instinctively from its wider implications, and our feet falter on
the path to higher destinies.

These reactionary forces stubbornly
impede the progress of those deep-going eugenic reforms which must speedily be
undertaken if our civilization is to be saved from decline and our race from
decay.

This is serious enough. But there is
something more serious still. The reactionary forces which we have just
described, though, powerful, are, after all, essentially negative in character.
With the spread of enlightenment they would soon wither -- if they stood alone.
But they do not stand alone. Behind them, sheltered by them, lurks a positive,
aggressive force: The Under-Man!

The Under-Man is unconvertible. He will
not bow to the new truth, because he knows that the new truth is not for him.
Why should he work for a higher civilization, when even the present
civilization is beyond his powers? What the Under-Man wants is, not progress,
but regress -- regress to more primitive conditions in which he would be at
home. In fact, the more he grasps the significance of the new eugenic truth,
the uglier grows his mood. So long as all men believed all men potentially
equal, the Under-Man could delude himself into thinking that changed
circumstances might rise him to the top. Now that
nature herself proclaims him irremediably inferior, his hatred of superiority
knows no bounds.

This hatred he has always instinctively felt. Envy and resentment of
superiority have ever been the badges of base minds. Yet never have these
badges been so fiercely flaunted, so defiantly worn, as to-day. This explains
the seeming paradox that, just when the character of superiority becomes
supremely manifest, the cry for leveling "equality" rises supremely
shrill. The Under-Man revolts against progress! Nature herself having decreed
him uncivilizable, the Under-Man declares war on
civilization.

These are not pretty facts. But we had
better face them, lest they face us, and catch us unawares. Let us, then,
understand once and for all that we have among us a rebel army -- the vast host
of the unadaptable, the incapable, the envious, the
discontented, filled with instinctive hatred of civilization and progress, and
ready on the instant to rise in revolt. Here are foes that need watching. Let
us watch them."

I swear to support and defend the constitution of the United States againstall enemies, foreign and domestic. So
What?

Am I un-American because I love my local Mexican
food restaurant? Whatabout taking Tai-Chi, Allen? Is that
American? Is it un-American to thinkthat I might learn something from a different
culture? How about learningforeign languages, is that un-American, or *gasp*
learning aspects of othercultures that I may try to live and promote
here? Does it seem un-Americanto you?

Maybe the free market of ideas will allow the best
of them to shine forthlike a light on a hill. A pretty smart guy
said something like that once.

ShalomWill Albenzi

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